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Roy H. Williams
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Roy H. Williams writes Monday Morning Memo, a personal blog at mondaymorningmemo.com about business and writing. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Roy H. Williams's Monday Morning Memo marketing post on why advertising matters for being remembered. The one comment discusses continuous advertising and brand recognition versus direct-response ads.
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The Monday Morning Memo is a weekly post prepared by New York Times bestselling business author, Roy H. Williams, The Wizard of Ads. I'm Indy, your guide in the rabbit hole. Whether advice on advertising or a philosophical muse, you'll never have heard it before. The MMMemo is free and your e-mail a
What Hacker News says?
That is the exact logic ad salespeople use to make you buy ads from them. Advertise continuously or else no one will remember you when they need your services. Unfortunately, this leads to crap ads being made and entrepreneurs spending a lot more money than they should on advertising - because they have no way to know which of the brand recognition ads worked. Yes brand recognition ads are good. But first go for guy…
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